So in this thread, http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/p...x.html?t=40148, I had quite a few votes for washing, basting, and pressing the old Stillwater (Macleod of Harris) kilt, and keeping it.

So we did. Well, we didn't keep it, but otherwise...

We just machine washed and dried the kilt.

Then, I basted it. There are actually a lot of pleats in this kilt! It took about an hour to baste it.







Then I pressed it. Note that after 3 years of hard wear, and many washings (without basting or pressing), the pleats were very hard to get perfect. I did the best I could, but it's still a bit "wavy".







We packaged up the kilt with some flashes.







And gave it to my younger brother today. It's just a little too big around the waist for him, but he assures me he is thinner than usual right now and it should fit him in a few months, once the weather cools off. Doesn't he look a bit like a Lawson's Scotch ad?







My mom gave him a Macleod T-Shirt she bought last year at the Loch Lomond Games (it was a bit too big for her). Never mind that the shirt is Macleod of Lewis and the kilt is Harris-it'll do.





Don't worry, I did emphasize that the basting stitches need to be removed, but he had a bit of a car ride home from my mother's place and I didn't want him to mess up the pleats on the way.

I must also mention, that when he came out of the bathroom kilted, he did have the pleats in the front! Why do so many new kilt wearers make that mistake?

Who knows, maybe he'll make an appearance on the boards as a newbie sometime soon!

Be well,